[Quix]

Cronos, you and/or several others on FR COULD quietly connect with knowledgable sources at the Vatican or the Vatican observatory and find out to what degree the public pronouncements of such officials on the part of the Vatican's perspective on ET's really reflect the perspective of the hierarchy and even the Pope.

My take is that the Pope like a lot of governments is taking a step by step plan of conditioning the sheeple to accepting that perspective--that ET's are either benign and wonderful--not in need of Salvation or candidates for Salvation through Christ.

I think it's likely that more formal, official Papal encyclicals on the issues are at least months if not several years off, yet. However, the shift has been started. And it has been officially started. That much is clear.

[Cronos]

1. There are NO "pronouncements" by The Church on aliens. If an MSM article says that, they also say that the Church has a view on which type of cravats are in fashion -- viz. the MSM lies. Do you have any "pronouncements" by the FourSquare group on aliens?

2. There is no Church view on aliens --> don't believe the MSM rot, these are the same folks who tried to convince you that Obama (a state senator who never worked a day in his life) knew more about running a country than a state governor who was a mayor as well.

3. What exactly is the Pentecostal or the Foursquare pronouncement on Aliens? What is the Presbyterian or Southern Baptist pronouncement? What is the ELCA or LCMS or Methodist or Assemblies of God pronouncement? There is none as this is not a religious point.

[Cronos]

G. K. Chesterton famously observed that when you stop believing in God, you don’t believe in nothing; you believe in anything. Similarly, in the absence of Christianity, you get (before Christ) things that anticipate it or (after Christ) things that are a cheap imitation of it.

UFOs, ETs, and aliens fill the hole left by a loss of a sense of the supernatural and angels, devils, and so forth. An abhorrence of fasting is replaced by a fascination with diets. A horror of spiritual discipline and penance is succeeded by manias for rigorous and punishing exercise. "Experts" are ordained by the media to lead us in matters temporal and spiritual, instead of priests. Fat, rather than sin, is sinful.